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Everyman
Roth, Philip
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastorale (and also the winner of two National Book Awards and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, amid a long roster of major awards), Philip Roth earned his third PEN/Faulkner Award for this novel inspired by the 15th-century allegory Everyman. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, as he observes the deterioration of his contemporaries and is stalked by his own physical woes, hoping to somehow escape his own mortality. 20x13cm, 182 pages.
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Northern Lights - Filmed as The Golden Compass
Pullman, Philip
There are worlds beyond our own - the Compass will show the way... The first novel in Philip Pullman's epic His Dark Materials trilogy is now the stunning motion picture - The Golden Compass , made by New Line Cinema and Scholastic Media. When Lyra is given the strange and secret alethiometer, she begins an extraordinary journey that will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. The destiny that awaits her will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... 20x13cm, 397 pages.
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Unaccustomed Earth
Lahiri, Jhumpa
An outstanding new collection of stories that explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth follows new lives forged in the wake of loss.
These are stories in which deeply sympathetic characters reach pivotal moments in their frayed relationships and are forced to navigate their way in unfamiliar landscapes. In the title story the death of a mother leaves a space neither daughter nor husband knows how to fill. In ‘Only Goodness’ a younger brother’s spiralling alcoholism threatens to destroy his loyal sister’s family. And in a trio of linked stories we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one memorable winter, share a house in suburban Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until they are brought together years later in a chance meeting in Rome.
With moving compassion Lahiri traces a series of transformations: weariness into hope, secrets into sacrifices, and grief into unforeseen love. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any she has yet written – explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, taking us from America to Europe, India and Thailand. Infused with eloquent warmth and lyrical simplicity, Unaccustomed Earth confirms Jhumpa Lahiri’s status as a storyteller of unrivalled empathy. 22x13cm, 333 pages.
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The Kabul Beauty School
Rodriguez, Deborah
Kabul Beauty School is a remarkable tale of an extraordinary community of women, all of whom have stories to tell, come together and learn the arts of perms, friendship, and freedom. Arriving in Afghanistan in 2002 with nothing more than a beauty degree and a desire to help, Deborah Rodriguez set out on a course of action that would change her life and those of many Afghan women. The once proud tradition of beauty schools had been all but destroyed and with it Afghani women's ability to support themselves. As one of the founders of the Kabul Beauty School she set about training women and helping them rebuild their lives. 20x13cm, 282 pages.
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Lewycka, Marina
“An amusing, astonishing debut . . . about how a family learns to let go of the past and live and love in the present.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father’s intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
“A charming comedy of eros... A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty.” —Los Angeles Times “Lewycka is a writer with a fundamentally optimistic vision of the future and a healthy curiosity about the past.” —Chicago Tribune “Charming, poignantly funny.” —The Washington Post Book World. 20x13cm, 294 pages.
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Life of Pi
Martel, Yann
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years. Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
18x11cm, 401 pages.
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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life
Bellos, Alex
Futebol is an irresistible blend of history, anecdote and legend told with great humour and verve by the Guardian's man in Rio. This title shows how Brazil changed football and how football shaped Brazil. The author tells the stories behind the great players, teams, and matches, and the startling range of football spinoffs, such as Ecoball, played in the rainforest and the truly alarming Footbull (yes with bulls). ‘A thrilling picture of Brazilian society and its football which neatly combines reportage with sporting analysis’ —Robert McCrum, Observer.
‘In this magnificent book, Bellos has managed to perfectly capture the chaos and corruption, and the romance and obsession and the feeling of what it's like to live in a genuinely football-obsessed nation ... it's the human stories of dedication to the sport which remain long after you've put the book down ... Bellos has gone that extra mile’ —Four Four Two.
‘A captivating page-turner ... it brims with beguiling discoveries’ —Daily Telegraph.
‘An affectionate and shrewd account of the game. The book is full of intriguing sidelights on Brazilian popular culture; its hedonism, piety and wondrous absurdity’ —Guardian.
‘Bellos's descriptions of the sport's rise are deft, but what really makes his book excellent are the chapters of reportage about its current hold on popular imagination’ —Financial Times.
‘Fascinating ... superb’ —Times Literary Supplement.
‘As beguiling , as surprising and as many-faceted as Brazilian football itself’ —Richard Williams.
‘Bellos never gets moony about the game and discourages watercoloured memories of the way things were. His 'contemporary portrait' of the country is based on interviews with priests, politicians, transvestites and Indian tribes. Although there were occasional brushes with celebrity in the course of his travels, he is aware that a football remains out of many Brazilians' financial reach: an appendix includes helpful instructions on how to make your own ball from a rubber tree’ —Daily Telegraph. 20x13 cm, illustrated, 420 pages.
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Guantanamo
Rose, David
Camp Delta at Guantánamo Bay is the most controversial prison in the world.
The 600 detainees in Cuba have been held in a legal black hole. Are they 'the hardest of the hard-core' Al Qaeda terrorists, ruthless men 'involved in a plot to kill thousands of ordinary Americans', as the Bush administration has maintained? And has their continued imprisonment really been a necessary weapon in the war against terror, preventing further murders and providing an invaluable trove of intelligence?
In pursuit of the answers, David Rose has visited the camp and interviewed guards, officials and medical staff, as well as the prison commander. In a detailed investigation of the claims of the British detainees released early in 2004, he describes a suffocating atmosphere of isolation, harrassment, Kafkaesque accusation and physical brutality. Through this series of compelling and disturbing insights into the operations at Guantánamo - and set in the context of centuries of civilized thought about the treatment of prisoners - we come to understand that the first thing to go in the War on Terror will be human rights. 20x13cm, 168 pages.
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My Ear at His Heart
Kureishi, Hanif
Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's failed attempts in the past. The wellspring of the memoir is Kureishi's discovery of an abandoned manuscript that recounts his father's childhood in Bombay as the world turns upside down and India splits in two along religious lines: thus a family that had lived in India for generations now had to accept a Pakistani identity. And so begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley - his days spent as a minor functionary in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition... 22x14cm, illustrated, 198 pages.
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The Wines of Austria
Blom, Philipp
A recent and renewed interest in Austrian wines has seen them beginning to appear on the lists of serious wine merchants. This book looks at the history of Austrian wines from early Austrian wine culture to the recent explosion of experimentation, investment and innovation. The reader is introduced to the main wine-growing areas, their landscape and the wines they produce. For each region the author lists the top growers, whose wines are representative of the best in Austria. He explores these estates and their wine-makers in fascinating detail and includes some of his own wine recommendations.
"The bandwagon to jump aboard for fine white wines ... is undoubtedly that labelled Austria. This is where connoisseurs can find elegance, fruit and complexity." Jancis Robinson, Financial Times.Philipp Blom was first introduced to Austrian wines in the early nineties whilst studying in Vienna, and since then they have become something close to an obsession for him. In this book he presents a persuasive case for these stunning wines, already discovered by collectors in the USA and soon to be asserting themselves on the international stage. As far as Philipp Blom is concerned, Austrian wines are the wine world's best-kept secret. Contents:
AUSTRIAN WINE PAST AND PRESENT:
Culture and History --- From the Celts to the Romans, Migrations and monks, Sweet wines and bitter wars,Connoisseurs and scholars, The glorious revolution of 1985, The face of Austrian wine culture today.
What Makes an Austrian Wine?--- Regional styles in brief , Legal framework. Grape Varieties --- White grapes,Red grapes.
AUSTRIAN WINE-GROWING AREAS AND GROWERS:
Burgenland --- Area profile Neusiedlersee, Top growers by the Neusiedlersee, Neusiedlersee-Hügelland,Top growers in Neusiedlersee- Hügelland, Middle Burgenland,Top growers in Middle Burgenland,South Burgenland, Top growers in South Burgenland. Weinviertel --- Area profile, Top growers. Thermenregion --- Area profile, Top growers. Carnuntum --- Area profile, Top growers. Donauland --- Area profile, Top growers. Traisental --- Area profile, Top growers. Styria --- Area profile. South Styria, Top growers in South Styria.
South-East Styria --- Top growers in South-East Styria. West Styria --- Top growers in West Styria. Vienna --- Area profile, Top growers.
Wachau --- Area profile, Top growers. Kamptal ---Area profile, Top growers. Kremstal --- Area profile, Top growers.
MAPS: WINE-GROWING AREAS OF AUSTRIA:
Neusiedlersee and Neusiedlersee Hügelland, Middle and South Burgenland, Weinviertel,
Thermenregion and Carnuntum, Traisental and Donauland, South Styria, West and East Styria,
Vienna, Wachau, Kamptal, Kremstal. 22x14cm, illustrated, 222 pages.
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The Fiery Cross - The Ku Klux Klan in America
Wade, Wyn Craig
Few groups in our history are as fascinating and mysterious as the Ku Klux Klan. Its story is one of violence, political manipulation and intrigue, absurdity, and mesmerizing organizational and propaganda skills. Through shrewd political tactics and powerful leadership, the Klan has often been a potent force, as it encouraged Americans to protect themselves from those they find "unacceptable." Its actions have made it one of the most feared groups in America.
In The Fiery Cross , Wyn Craig Wade traces the Klan from its beginnings after the Civil War as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, to the present. Wade provides us with the history of the group, which has gone through a number of declines and renaissances over the last hundred years. We follow the Klan's resurgence in 1915 after D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation depicted Klan members as heroic saviors of the old Southern society, to the swearing in of President Warren G. Harding as a Klansman in the Green Room, and from the Klan's championing of white supremacy as a response to the Civil Rights movement in the 60s, to their present day activities, aligning themselves with a variety of neo-fascist and right-wing groups in the American West. Finally, Wade provides us with an assessment of the Klan's future.
The Fiery Cross provides an exhaustive analysis and perspective on this dark shadow of American society. It is long overdue. 23x16cm, illustrated, 526 pages.
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American Life: A Social History
Macmillan
Social history can be described as a chronicle of the fabric of ordinary existence - sometimes minute and subtle, occasionally rapid and momentous. American Life features articles about family, home, everyday life, popular thought, and recreation. Table of Contents:
ADOLESCENCE: Chesapeake Migrants - Young Women in Slavery - Adolescent Morality
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC: A Variety of Instruments - African American Secular Music - Gospel Performance -
James Brown and Aretha Franklin.
AMUSEMENT AND THEME PARKS: The Roller Coaster and Carousel.
CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN: Native American Children - Nineteenth Century Schools - John B. Watson.
THE CITY: The Public Health Movement - City Government - Chart: Population of Leading U.S. Cities .
CLOTHING AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT: Eighteenth Century Hairstyles - Female Attractiveness in the Nineteenth Century -
The Cultivation of Beauty.
COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE: The Sun Building - The 1893 Columbian Exposition - The Evolution of the Shopping Mall.
COMMUNICATIONS
AND INFORMATION PROCESSING.
CONCERT MUSIC: Early Twentieth Century Concert music - The Birth of "Bebop".
COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC: Minnie Pearl - Nashville.
COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE, SEPERATION, AND DIVORCE: Bundling - The "New" Morality - "No-Fault" divorce.
DEATH: Death of Children - The Mortality Gap - Funeral Practices in the Twentieth Century.
FILM: Nickelodeons - The Birth of a Nation - The Depression - Inquisition and Blacklist.
FOLK SONG AND FOLK MUSIC: Broadsides - Governmental Institutions and Folk Song Study.
FOODWAYS: Thomas Jefferson - Food Reformers - Scientific Housekeeping.
FRATERNAL ORGANISATIONS: Fraternalism as Entertainment.
THE FRONTIER: The First Americans - Whiskey Rebellion.
HEALTH CARE: Public Medical lnstitutions in the Nineteenth Century.
HOUSING: "Hall Parlor" Houses - Climate and Housing Design - The First Suburbs.
HUMOR AND COMEDY: Joel Chandler Harris - H. L. Mencken.
JOURNALISM: Broadsides and Magazines - The Ethnic Press - The Rural Press - Censorship of the Press.
LANDSCAPES: The Forest Primeval.
MANNERS AND ETIQUETTE: Rank and Status in the New World - The Laws of Etiquette - Women in the Workplace.
NATIONAL PARKS AND PRESERVATION: Ecological Perspectives.
NIGHTLIFE: Dance Halls, Cabarets, and Nightclubs.
OLD AGE: Improvements in Longevity - Old Age and the Law.
PARADES, HOLIDAYS, AND PUBLIC RITUALS: Mother's Day and Other Holidays - "Harlem Is Also a Paradise Ground".
THE PLANTATION: "King Cotton".
POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT BEFORE CIVIL WAR: Puritan Entertainments in the Eighteenth Century - Entertainments in Rural
Communities.
POPULAR LITERATURE: The Age of Cheap Fiction - Popular Trash - The Paperback Revolution.
POPULAR MUSIC BEFORE 1950: A Joyful Noise vs. an "Odd Noise".
PRINT AND PUBLISHING: Literacy in the Colonies - The Cause of "Useful Knowledge" - African -American Literacy -
Ethnic Publishing in the Nineteenth Century - "The Best Reading".
PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE: County Courthouse.
RADIO: The Distance Fiend - The Voice of America - Radio and Rock 'n' Roll.
ROCK MUSIC: Rock and Roll - The Mirror of Society - Punk Rock - Contemporary Rock and the
African American Express.
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND MORALITY: Sex and Reproduction - Native American Sexual Customs -
Free Love - Pornography and Prostitution - The Fight for Reproductive Freedom - The Stonewall Riot.
SPORTS THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Morton vs. Bradford - The Birth of Baseball -
The 'Y' Movement.
SPORTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Modern Sports - Collegiate and Professional Football.
THE SUBURBS: The Birth of the Suburb - Origins of Suburban Government - A Postsuburban Era?
TELEVISION: Sponsors - Television and Politics - Television News in the 1960s.
THEATER AND MUSICAL THEATER: Pamphlet Plays - John Howard Payne - The Shuberts, Belasco, and the Fiskes -
The Living Newspaper.
TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY: The Way West.
TRAVEL AND VACATIONS: Summer Camps - National Tourism - International Tourism.
URBAN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: Literature and Enlightement - History and Science - Art in the Twentieth Century.
URBAN PARKS: The People's Park.
VILLAGE AND TOWN: The Pioneer Village - The Facade of the Small Town.
WOMAN'S ORGANIZATIONS: The Women's Christian Temperance Union. 29x23 cm, illustrated, 642 pages.
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Plays - Photocopiable Timesavers
Myles, Jane
Timesaver Plays: Ready-made drama scenes and activities for the classroom is a collection of 12 short photocopiable plays for intermediate level secondary students. The plays present situations and problems which are relevant to young people including themes of friendship, school and love.
Each play ends in a moral dilemma. Students have to discuss and choose from three different possible endings, or invent their own. There are also comprehension exercises and follow-up language actitivities.
Teacher's notes suggest ways to develop the drama potential of the plays in the classroom.Spiralbound, 80 pages.
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Vocabulary Activities (Elementary) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Finnie,Sue - Bourdais, Janièle
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Vocabulary Activities bieten Spiel und Spaß zum Vokabeltraining. Die wichtigsten Bereiche wie Person, Day to Day, The World around us, Having fun oder Holidays and special days werden abgedeckt und die Vokabel in spielerischer Form näher gebracht. Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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Make Your Point! / Debate For Esl/Efl Students & CD
Lubetsky, Michael
This valuable workbook and CD set can turn any English speaker into an accomplished debater.
The student-centered format is suitable for large and small classes alike. Each of the ten chapters offers a "language focus" and a "debate focus." As students learn new debate skills, they also build important language skills. Make Your Point! will benefit everyone from high school students to business people. A CD for all practice conversations is attached on the inside cover. 28x21cm,illustrated, 88 pages.
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Oxford Dictionary of Slang
Ayto, John
Here, John Ayto has brought together over 10,000 slang words and phrases common to 20th-century English, to provide a comprehensive and highly engaging guide to the most outspoken corner of our language. Unlike most such dictionaries, this volume is organized thematically, with slang words
gathered under such headings as "the body and its functions" or "sustenance and intoxication." Within each section, the words are listed chronologically, starting with the century's earliest words and phrases and progressing right through to the present day, thus illuminating the development of
slang and colloquial language over the last hundred years. Word origins and other interesting features of usage are given wherever possible, as are illustrative quotations from a wide range of authors. A comprehensive A-Z index lists all words included in the dictionary, so you can find a particular
word quickly. From "five-finger discount" to "forty-rod whiskey," this is an authoritative and up-to-date record of slang throughout the English-speaking world. 20x13cm, 480 pages.
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Phrasal Verbs & Idioms (Elementary - Advanced) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Scholastic
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Phrasal Verbs & Idioms (Pre-intermediate - Advanced)
Was wäre Englisch ohne Phrasal Verbs und Idioms? So lernen Ihre Schüler/innen spielerisch den Unterschied zwischen "take away", "take off" und "take after" und werden nie wieder glauben, dass "to lend someone a hand" "jemandem eine Hand borgen" bedeutet. Spiralgebunden, 80 Seiten.
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Picture prompts (Elementary - Intermediate) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Berwick, Gwen - Sydney Thorne
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Picture prompts (Elementary - Intermediate)
Sorgfältig ausgewählte Illustrationen regen fünf verschiedene, leicht einsetzbare Aktivitäten und Übungstypen an: grammar points, stories and situations, opinions and imagination, pair and group work und vocabulary practice. Die optisch ansprechenden Kopiervorlagen behandeln durchwegs Themengebiete, die Teenager wirklich interessieren, wie z. B. Designer clothes, A school for wizards, Formula I u. v. a. m. Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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Holidays and Special Days in the USA - Photocopiable Timesavers
Myles, Jane
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Der Band Holidays and Special Days in the USA beinhaltet alle wichtigen Feiertage und Festlichkeiten in den USA. Mit Hilfe von ansprechenden Illustrationen werden geschichtliche und kulturelle Besonderheiten erläutert und interessierten Schülerinnen und Schülern näher gebracht: Wer feiert zum Beispiel Trick-or-Treat? Was wird am Thanksgiving Day aufgetischt oder wie lautet das Rezept für den typischen Muttertagskuchen, den Carrot Cake?
Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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Personality Quizzes (Elementary - Intermediate) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Lambert Viv (ed.)
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Personality quizzes (Elementary - Intermediate)
Ein nicht wegzudenkender Teil jedes Teenagermagazins weltweit ist der Persönlichkeitstest. In diesem Buch finden Sie 50 Persönlichkeitstests. Die Tests sind ansprechend illustriert und motivieren dadurch, dass sie sich auf die Interessen der Teenager konzentrieren: "Are you a good friend?", "How fit are you?" "Are you a shopaholic?". Spiralgebunden, 80 Seiten.
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Read and react (Beginner - Intermediate) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Myles Jane
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Read and react (Beginner - Intermediate)
Der Nachfolgeband der Timesaver Reading Lessons enthält stimulierende, aktuelle Texte, die sich speziell an 10- bis 14-Jährige richten. Eine Fülle an Themen wird behandelt, von Celebrities über Technology zu Animals und Sport. Enthält eine Reihe verschiedener Textsorten. Spiralgebunden, 80 Seiten.
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Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
Siefring, Judith
The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of idioms available. It covers both long-established idioms and phrases, and recent arrivals. It tells us, for example, that 'run amok' was first introduced into English in the 16th century from the Malay word amuk meaning 'in a homicidal frenzy', while 'off the cuff' refers to the rather messy practice, common in the days of starched shirt cuffs, of writing last-minute notes on one's shirt cuff before speaking in public. More recent coinages include 'jump the shark' (referring to a film or TV show that has had events added to it merely for novelty rather than for quality) and 'give someone the hairy eyeball' (staring angrily at someone through partially closed eyes). These and many more idioms are defined, explained, and put into context. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is based on the resources of Oxford's unique language research programme; each entry has been meticulously researched by the Oxford Dictionary department, with many new findings being incorporated for the new edition. Several hundred new idioms have been added together with many new examples of use; in addition the text has been redesigned, presenting idioms alphabetically by key word and including special new origin and background notes. Lastly, a new thematic index groups together idioms and phrases which have a common theme, such as jealousy and envy, strength, age, and death. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is an essential reference tool for students and teachers of English, both at university level and for English as a second language, as well as for anyone interested in the more colourful side of the English language and its history. 20x13cm, 340 pages.
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A Practical English Grammar
Thomson, A. J., Martinet, A.V.
A classic intermediate grammar for foreign learners. This new edition has been revised and updated and is now even more informative and easier to use. 22x14cm, 383 pages.
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The Ghosts of Izieu (Book & Audiocassette)
Watson, James
This pack contains the book and one cassette.
Book & Audiocassette in Easy English: Pre-Intermediate Level (1200 words). The Audiocassette includes the complete text as printed in the book, excluding the Activities pages.
The Ghosts of Izieu is a classic ghost story set in modern France.
Elise is a young English girl on holiday in France, with her father and stepmother. Elise resents her father's new wife and is bored in the hot, dusty French village. Her father is keen for her to share his interest, in local history She, however, is reluctant, until she becomes a part of it herself. She begins to see the ghosts of children who seem to be from another time. She meets the mysterious Stefan who appears strangely afraid of something in the town.
When she seeks refuge from the summer heat in the cold village church, she is hurled back in time and meets a group of Jewish refugee children, who are in hiding from the Gestapo. The children call her 'Eloise'. She realises that she must leave the children in order to return to her own time and regain her own identity. The village's war memorial reveals to her, upon her return, the horrible fate with which the children met. The experience makes her reassess her relationship with her father and stepmother, and she determines to try harder to make it succeed. She is also able to appreciate fully the importance of remembering those who died in the Holocaust. Background and Themes:
The Ghosts of Izieu combines the two themes of the Holocaust and the supernatural. The ghosts in question are of a group of Jewish children persecuted in the 1940's. At the heart of the story is the moral message that it is important to remember the Holocaust, so that it will not be repeated. The young girl at the centre of the story becomes more aware of this as the plot develops. Her father's stories about the horrors of the deportations and concentration camps seem very abstract until she meets the ghosts and shares their terror. On a broader level the story is a reminder of how intolerance and racism can eventually lead to atrocities, such as the murder of the children in the book. 20x13cm, illustrated in full colour, 42 pages &
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Cross-curricular English Activities - Photocopiable Timesavers
Birdsall, Melanie
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Cross-Curricular English Activities rundet das Angebot aus dieser Reihe mit attraktiven Aufgabenstellungen aus den Bereichen Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Geschichte und Geographie ab. Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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She Said Yes - The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
Bernall, Misty
In this bestseller that grabbed national media attention, the mother of a Columbine High School student speaks with honesty as she describes how her once-troubled daughter, Cassie, found God and straightened out her life, and professed her faith before she was killed in the school shooting. Contains a new Introduction by the author and an Afterword by Michael W. Smith.
17x11cm, illustrated, 163 pages.
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Far From The Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Book in Easy English - Intermediate - 1650 headwords. Bathsheba Everdene is a beautiful young woman. Three men say they love her but she marries the wrong one. This tragic story takes place in the beautiful countryside of the south of England. One of a series designed as an introduction to literature. It is graded into six levels, and each book contains an introduction and exercises. It is designed for students of English as a foreign or as a second language, and for reluctant readers. 20x13 cm, illustrated, 60 pages.
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Living at the Edge of the World: How I Survived in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station
Bolnick, Jamie Pastor
When Tina S. meets April, a teenage runaway, she thinks she's found her best friend. She leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join April in the tunnels of New York's Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and drug addicted. Soon she's bingeing on crack - just like April - and stealing, scamming, and panhandling to support her habit and to survive on the streets. Tina tells the story of her four years in the strange netherworld of Grand Central Station: her descent into crack addiction, being raped in the tunnels, her several arrests and jail terms, and her grief and guilt over the death of April. Finally faced with the reality that she might not make it through one more day, Tina takes her first difficult steps toward a normal life. 23x15 cm, 283 pages.
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A Child Called "It"
Pelzer, Dave
The life-enhancing true story of a young boy's struggle to free himself from his abusive mother and find a family to love him.
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog's bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting an inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive. 'Dave Pelzer conveys brilliantly how his own determination allowed him to keep alive his dream of one day find a family who would be proud to call him their son. Truly touching, and emotionally shocking. 18x11cm,128 pages.
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Speedy Stories in Just 366 Words
Ian Whybrow, Georgia Byng, Roddy Doyle, Jeremy Strong
This is a unique anthology crammed with fantastic stories, each told in just 366 words, from some of the top authors in children's fiction. That's as many words as there are days in this leap year! In this work, the contributors include Roddy Doyle, Michael Morpurgo, Charlie Higson, Anne Fine, Jeremy Strong, Nina Bawden, Ian Whybrow, Paul Stewart, Michael Bond, and Tom Fletcher from McFly .
20x13cm, 520 pages.
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Kim: Empty Inside (The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager)
Sparks, Beatrice (Editor of "Go Ask Alice")
When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations - especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control - or can she? 17x10cm, 165 pages.
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Small Steps
Sachar, Louis
A brilliant companion volume to mega bestseller "HOLES".
Armpit and X-Ray are living in Austin, Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre and Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes, he is going to school and he is enjoying his first proper romance, but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him?
In this brilliantly plotted and exciting novel, Armpit is joined by many vibrant new characters, and is learning what it takes to stay on course, and that doing the right thing is never the wrong choice. 20x14cm, 257 pages.
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Refugee Boy
Zephaniah, Benjamin
Alem's father is Ethiopian but his mother is Eritrean.
When these countries go to war, his parents are seen as traitors by both sides. Arriving in London
as a refugee, Alem wakes up next morning to discover his father has returned to Africa to try and
help end the civil war. Entirely on his own, Alem is sent to a children's home, but when this proves
too tough he is placed with foster parents and starts attending school. He then learns that his mother
has been killed and that he may be expelled from Britain because of problems with his application to
seek asylum. But at least Alem is reunited with his father, over in Britain again. When local people bear
that father and son may be deported they put on a Freedom Dance to raise funds tor their appeal.Things
seem to be going well, but more troubles are on the way. Much of this novel is taken up with the actual
details of what currently happens to people seeking asylum in Britain. Alem's view of Britain as an outsider
is always fascinating and sometimes even comic. The other asylum seekers he meets all have their own,
frequently tragic stories to tell, but althought the book is often unavoidably sad, it is still in many ways a
feel-good story. Alem is the sort of positive character who brings out the best in others as well as in himself.
To read this novel is to become better informed about a controversial topic where there are no easy answers.
20x13 cm, 224 pages.
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Bronte's Story: Tears, Trials and Triumphs: A Personal Battle with Anorexia
Cullis, Bronte
"There was a time, at age fifteen, when I didn't think I would be alive to see my eighteenth birthday. I'm now twenty-five and I've defied the odds.
Bronte Cullis was the Melbourne teenager whose battle with anorexia captured the hearts of Australians in a series of stories and documentaries by Ray Martin for the Nine Network.
On television, we watched in awe this girl who refused to eat. Years of tears and family frustrations followed. As Jan, Bronte's mother, said at the time: "Bronte doesn't have anorexia, our whole family has anorexia."
Bronte's parents were desperate. They knew their daughter was about to die unless they did something drastic. They mortgaged the family home, sold what they could and sent Bronte to the Montreux Clinic, an unconventional eating disorder clinic half a world away in Canada. It was Bronte's last chance at survival…
Bronte has kept diaries from the day she became sick with anorexia. This is her story. 20x13 cm, illustrated, 276 pages.
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Witch Child
Rees, Celia
When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hung for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. The woman gives her tools to keep the record of her days - paper and ink. Mary is taken to a boat in Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where she hopes to make a new life among the pilgrims. But old superstitions die hard and soon Mary finds that she, like her grandmother, is the victim of ignorance and stupidity and once more she finds herself having to make important choices to ensure her survival. With a vividly evoked environment and characters skilfully and patiently drawn this is a powerful literary achievement by Celia Rees, that is utterly engrossing from start to finish. 20x13 cm, 234 pages.
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Gangsta Rap
Zephaniah, Benjamin
Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper. 20x13cm, 332 pages.
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Missing Persons Case 1: The Rose Queen
Rabb, M.E.
First in an exciting new detective series about two sisters who are on the run. Meet Sam and Sophie Shattenberg, two sisters from New York who are trying to create new lives for themselves in a tiny town. They've changed their names, dyed their hair and taken up a new hobby - solving missing persons cases. At the same time they're working hard to make sure that they stay missing themselves - in this case, 16-year-old Noelle McBride is missing, and the Chief of Police seems to think that Sophie might be the culprit! 20x13cm, 208 pages.
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Go Ask Alice - Book of Answers
n.a.
What's the best way to minimize a hangover? Is it normal to have sex without experiencing an orgasm? How can you tell if a friend of yours is suffering from an eating disorder? Does smoking pot have long-term consequences? Does Seasonal Affective Disorder really exist? These are the questions people are asking ... and until now, there's been no reliable book that has provided sensible, honest, and comforting answers specifically for this audience. The Go Ask Alice Book of Answers is a groundbreaking guide that mines the best material from the eponymous award-winning Web site. From sex and relationships to alcohol and drugs to fitness and nutrition, this comprehensive handbook is the first of its kind to provide much-needed information for young adults who cannot get reliable or anonymous information from conventional channels. 345 pages
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Finding Katie (The Diary Of Anonymous, A Teenager In Foster Care)
Sparks, Beatrice (Editor of "Go Ask Alice")
Katie is always surrounded by wealth, but feels terribly alone because of the secret horror of her angry, abusive father. When she's thrown out of her house and put into foster care, it seems like the end of the world. But as she moves through the foster care system, she begins to realize that she can help others. Can she, at last, find courage and strength of her own? 17x10cm, 181 pages.
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I Can Learn Rhyming Reading (36 Flashcards)
Morgan Nicola
These bright, robust flashcards are great for building literacy and numeracy skills at home, supporting Early Years and National Curriculum Key Stage 1 programmes of study in schools.
With a sheet of stickers and gold stars to build confidence and making learning fun. 13x9cm.
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Rumpelstiltskin
Grimm, Jacob
Once upon a time, there was a miller who was forever telling stories. He would boast about his daughter to anyone who would listen and each story became more and more extravagant. His neighbours just laughed, but one day the king was in town and he didn't laugh. He took the miller very seriously. 18x12cm, illustrated, 32 pages.
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Tornadoes: And Other Dramatic Weather Systems
Allaby, Michael
Intermediate Level: The power, the mystery, and the fury of tornadoes are explored in this guide that delves into the formation of dangerous storms and wild weather. Full-color illustrations. 20x13 cm, 96 pages.
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Winnie the Witch & CD
Thomas, Valerie and Paul, Korky
Winnie lived in her black house with her cat, Wilbur. He was black too. And that is how the trouble began. Everything in Winnies house is black—the carpet, the chairs, the bed and the sheets, the pictures on the walls, and even the bathtub! And of course her cat, Wilbur, is black too—all except for his bright-green eyes. Whenever poor Wilbur closes his eyes and tries to take a catnap, Winnie stumbles right over him. Or accidentally sits on top of him. Until one day, when Winnie gets a brilliant idea. What if Wilbur were a different color? 28x23cm, illustrated, 32 pages& CD.
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Spot Goes to School
Hill, Eric
Spot's first day at school with Miss Bear and all his fellow students is great fun, as he gets to make a word, paint a picture, sing a song and play with his new friends. More pop-up fun with the cute little puppy all children love. Bright colours and large print. 20x20cm, 24 pages.
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The Koala Brothers: Ned's Scary Night
Ladybird
A board book shaped like Ned's caravan. When Ned hears some noises outside during the night he is very scared and doesn't know what could be making them! Luckily the Koala Brothers are on hand to help . . . 25x19cm, 12 pages.
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Winnie's New Computer & CD
Thomas, Valerie
Winnie the Witch is very pleased with her new computer. She becomes wedded to technology and decides to throw away her book of spells and her old wand - now her magic will be at the click of a mouse. But as Winnie is asleep, Wilbur tries to pounce on the computer mouse and strange things start to happen. This title is accompanied by an audio CD. 28x21cm, illustrated.
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Solar System (Interfact Series) & CD-Rom
Two-Can
Book in easy English - intermediate. The book and disk that work together - combines all the values of high-quality illustrated books with the dramatic interactivity of imaginative multimedia.
Multimedia disk containing up to 15 hours of activities, games and on-screen adverntures presented as fully interactive features
48-page book with detailed facts, stunning photographs, illustrations and a glossary and index. Spiralbound, 22x18 cm,
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Votes for Women
Hollyer, Belinda
Using the alternating perspectives of two key players, Sylvia Pankhurst and Herbert Asquith, Belinda Hollyer brings this vividly to life through the passions and conflicts of real historical figures. It is a gripping story of a remarkable triumph of courage and determination over strenuous, often violent, opposition. The story begins before the First World War with the militant years of hunger strikes, force-feeding, and the cat-and-mouse tactics of the suffragette leaders.... 20x13 cm, illustrated, 160 pages.
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Who was Charlotte Brontë - The girl who turned her life into a book
Hubbard, Kate
Of the famous Brontë siblings, Charlotte, the eldest, was the survivor. At the age of five, she was packed off to boarding school - a place later featured as the sadistic Lowood institution in her novel, Jane Eyre - where the regime was so harsh it killed two of her sisters. In 1845, after a spell as a governess, and a disastrous love affair in France, Charlotte returned home to Haworth, Yorkshire, to pursue her literary ambitions.
This is the riveting story of a rector's daughter, who triumphed over unrequited love and family tragedy to take her place as one of the world's greatest and most popular writers. 20x13 cm, 88 pages.
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Winnie The Witch
Thomas, Valerie and Paul, Korky
Winnie lived in her black house with her cat, Wilbur. He was black too. And that is how the trouble began.
Everything in Winnies house is black—the carpet, the chairs, the bed and the sheets, the pictures on the walls, and even the bathtub! And of course her cat, Wilbur, is black too—all except for his bright-green eyes. Whenever poor Wilbur closes his eyes and tries to take a catnap, Winnie stumbles right over him. Or accidentally sits on top of him. Until one day, when Winnie gets a brilliant idea. What if Wilbur were a different color? 28x23cm, illustrated, 32 pages.
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